Article
Underestimation of species richness in neotropical frogs revealed by mtDNA analyses.
PloS one - 31 Oct 2007
Fouquet Antoine, Gilles André, Vences Miguel, Marty Christian, Blanc Michel, Gemmell Neil J
Abstract excerpt
BACKGROUND: Amphibians are rapidly vanishing. At the same time, it is most likely that the number of amphibian species is highly underestimated. Recent DNA barcoding work has attempted to define a threshold between intra- and inter-specific genetic distances to help identify candidate species. In groups with high extinction rates and poorly known species boundaries, like amphibians, such tools may provide a way...
Topics
- Animals
- Biodiversity
- DNA
- DNA, Mitochondrial
- DNA, Ribosomal
- Evolution, Molecular
- Genetic Variation
- Genetics, Population
- Models, Biological
- Models, Genetic
- Phylogeny